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Perspective on issues in Asia. Mostly this is to write about China. I do not know what to write yet. The government is so insecure and hypocritical that they would be funny if they were not so cruel. More to come. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
2:25 PM
Maybe Israel bombed his house. Maybe he did support the Iranian opposition and the government of Iran killed him. Neither party has enough credibility to make a claim, which makes the man's story all the more sad - no one will even know why he died.
Perhaps that's why he died the way he did... so no one would know why. It's possible Mr. Alimohammadi was an extremely dangerous man. His work in mathematics concerns complex vector models derived from quantum probabilities.
The world is up in arms, tied in knots over Iran's uranium enrichment program, but this may be a red herring. Let's face it: there are some bad eggs out there, and we can smell them, but we're not sure where they are, what they look like or what they are up to.
Mr. Alimohammadi's work with high-dimensional statistical mechanics and probability trees could have led to a discovery of a quantum chain reaction.
Perhaps someone already knew about this and this is the plan for the LHC, to let it go off, thinking "hah hah, stupid westerners blew themselves up;" Mr. Alimohammadi discovered this and was killed so the "bomb machine" goes off according to plan.
Perhaps someone already knew about a quantum chain reaction, and it is being or is already weaponized, like phaser beams or quantum disruptors from Star Trek, and when Mr. Alimohammadi discovered this independently and tried to be open with the world academic community, for the good of humanity, he was killed by whoever already controls the technology.
Perhaps Mr. Alimohammadi discovered something else entirely. Maybe he was going to give it to Iran to take over the world. Maybe he was going to tell everyone and give the world free energy from some new source. Who knows.
The sad thing is that the people who killed Mr. Alimohammadi do not realize that freedom of knowledge is inevitable. If Mr. Alimohammadi was killed for something he discovered, other scientists in the world will likely figure it out soon. Then, the people of the world will have to grow up and learn to live with it, or we'll blow ourselves up trying.
Freedom in general is also inevitable: the people are always going to think freely and complain about the government, and egotistical government people getting fussy and violent about it just makes the whole society look like primitive savages. YOU have to grow out of it, or we will all die.
So, Mr. Alimohammadi's death was pointless, as all death by war is pointless. The advantage gained is so fleeting, so temporary. What is the reason for so much blood? There is none.
RIP Masoud Alimohammadi
Masoud Alimohammadi was a physicist who studied how complex predictive models fit into model systems built from observing stars and particle interactions. Perhaps he did not have his eye on a telescope or a circle of rocks like sages of antiquity from Persia or many other ancient human civilizations, but he was one of those sages nonetheless.Maybe Israel bombed his house. Maybe he did support the Iranian opposition and the government of Iran killed him. Neither party has enough credibility to make a claim, which makes the man's story all the more sad - no one will even know why he died.
Perhaps that's why he died the way he did... so no one would know why. It's possible Mr. Alimohammadi was an extremely dangerous man. His work in mathematics concerns complex vector models derived from quantum probabilities.
The world is up in arms, tied in knots over Iran's uranium enrichment program, but this may be a red herring. Let's face it: there are some bad eggs out there, and we can smell them, but we're not sure where they are, what they look like or what they are up to.
- BIG: Uranium - big atom - splitting starts chain reaction
- BIGGER: Hydrogen - smaller protons and neutrons - fusing starts chain reaction
- BIGGEST? smallest quantum particles - chain reaction destroys world?
Mr. Alimohammadi's work with high-dimensional statistical mechanics and probability trees could have led to a discovery of a quantum chain reaction.
Perhaps someone already knew about this and this is the plan for the LHC, to let it go off, thinking "hah hah, stupid westerners blew themselves up;" Mr. Alimohammadi discovered this and was killed so the "bomb machine" goes off according to plan.
Perhaps someone already knew about a quantum chain reaction, and it is being or is already weaponized, like phaser beams or quantum disruptors from Star Trek, and when Mr. Alimohammadi discovered this independently and tried to be open with the world academic community, for the good of humanity, he was killed by whoever already controls the technology.
Perhaps Mr. Alimohammadi discovered something else entirely. Maybe he was going to give it to Iran to take over the world. Maybe he was going to tell everyone and give the world free energy from some new source. Who knows.
The sad thing is that the people who killed Mr. Alimohammadi do not realize that freedom of knowledge is inevitable. If Mr. Alimohammadi was killed for something he discovered, other scientists in the world will likely figure it out soon. Then, the people of the world will have to grow up and learn to live with it, or we'll blow ourselves up trying.
Freedom in general is also inevitable: the people are always going to think freely and complain about the government, and egotistical government people getting fussy and violent about it just makes the whole society look like primitive savages. YOU have to grow out of it, or we will all die.
So, Mr. Alimohammadi's death was pointless, as all death by war is pointless. The advantage gained is so fleeting, so temporary. What is the reason for so much blood? There is none.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
10:51 AM
I feel the same way about Fox News. This one announcer was interviewing some financial analyst. The announcer said everyone was worried that the instability could cause problems with getting the oil out of the ground in Iran, and that could drive up prices. Then the announcer stated that was why the Iranians were out protesting in the first place, because they were concerned about oil prices. Excuse me? What? The Iranians are protesting because a bunch of fascist jerks are lying to them. Does this Fox News announcer want the same thing to happen someday in Los Angeles, millions of people marching on his door in Bel Air with torches and pitchforks? Because that's the kind of utterly selfish lie that causes wars.
I remember a 2000-year old story about religious dictators who were hypocrites....
The Iranian masses have realized that they outnumber the dictators and the fascists and murderers who follow them. Conscript soldiers, throw off your chains, burn your draft cards, and join the protests!
The fascists, whose sole interest is their personal power, will try to use the chaos of the peoples' rebellion to make the case against democracy, that democracy is too unstable, that Iranians cannot have a democracy to lead themselves into the unknown future of humanity.
But precisely the opposite is true - Iran is unstable because a bunch of fascist jerks are more interested in personal power than enabling Iranians' personal struggles for peace of mind and peace in the world. Iran is unstable because its people are intelligent but it is not a democracy.
Indeed the various peoples of South Asia are not stupid, I would say that I even agree with some of their mainstream conclusions about the intellectual history of the West, that the philosophers of antiquity in the West were in fact misguided and incoherent in a spiritual way, that Aristotle and others took their systematic and mathematical proofs for fact, when, however useful those models are, their conclusions are inevitably derived from their own presupposed rules. Whereas, any spiritual being immediately knows by the nature of perception that there is something in the real world beyond the scope of mechanistic logic.
The Iranians understand that their national peace cannot be achieved by foreign military intervention, and the rest of the world understands that as well. Most of the world is pretty sick of hearing about the violence. Like the Iranian people, we want to be free to explore all that God has given us, out in the world, but most importantly in own minds, and deep in our souls.
The violent anger that Ahmadinejad, Khomeni and his ilk drum up is the only thing they know how to do. In this way, the controlling forces of Iran's government are much stupider than the Iranian people, who know how to direct their lives.
The fascist brigands who use Islam as their excuse of the day to wield the knife of murder also stoke the anger of Muslims in Europe and the rest of the world. Just as the Iranian people should be free to live their lives openly and in honest freedom, without the lies that drip with blood, Muslims around the world must learn to control their own anger. Just as the Iranians should be free to openly participate in and control their own governments, so people ought to be free to draw cartoons of the prophets and even the messiah. It is said that God will only hold blasphemy against the spirit against us... and you can't draw a cartoon of something you cannot see. Besides, good humor is necessary to a heart open to God... God likes to laugh.
Similarly, I ought to be free to hold the opinion, which I do personally, that Muhammad is the False Prophet mentioned in Revelation, just as the sinfulness expressed in the partially free western world is the opposite character, Babylon, Mystery, and as polar opposites of cultural force, their interaction is used by the Beast and the Dragon to levy death upon the good people who live with God everywhere among us and in every religion -- but even though I hold this opinion personally, I certainly have no reason to hurt anyone because they do not believe the same way I do. (I also have no reason to hurtfully make fun of what other people believe by drawing immature cartoons.) That's the thing -- no one knows the details of God's plan, not us, not even the angels. When you turn to the light of the Lord, it is so interesting to the mind in and of itself, that what other people believe ceases to have any importance.
God does not want us to hate each other or to be angry about what we cannot control. The sword of death cannot control people even in death; when wielded by governments, inevitably the government slips and cuts its own throat. Thus good people courageously step forward without weapons, with only love to guard them. That is the story of the world, that is the way it always plays out. So, we might as well live the good dream while we are still dreaming in God's mind. I hope all the people of Iran choose the good dream. We may never reach perfection in our lives, but it is easier than you think to let it live in your heart.
Iranian revolution
Some stations have covered the anger Iranians feel that Ahmadinejad and the religious dictators insult their intelligence, claiming the election was not a fraud and that Iran is the "most stable country in the world." Iranians are not stupid. They know they are human and often err in the struggle with their selves, each other and the rest of us out in the world.I feel the same way about Fox News. This one announcer was interviewing some financial analyst. The announcer said everyone was worried that the instability could cause problems with getting the oil out of the ground in Iran, and that could drive up prices. Then the announcer stated that was why the Iranians were out protesting in the first place, because they were concerned about oil prices. Excuse me? What? The Iranians are protesting because a bunch of fascist jerks are lying to them. Does this Fox News announcer want the same thing to happen someday in Los Angeles, millions of people marching on his door in Bel Air with torches and pitchforks? Because that's the kind of utterly selfish lie that causes wars.
I remember a 2000-year old story about religious dictators who were hypocrites....
The Iranian masses have realized that they outnumber the dictators and the fascists and murderers who follow them. Conscript soldiers, throw off your chains, burn your draft cards, and join the protests!
The fascists, whose sole interest is their personal power, will try to use the chaos of the peoples' rebellion to make the case against democracy, that democracy is too unstable, that Iranians cannot have a democracy to lead themselves into the unknown future of humanity.
But precisely the opposite is true - Iran is unstable because a bunch of fascist jerks are more interested in personal power than enabling Iranians' personal struggles for peace of mind and peace in the world. Iran is unstable because its people are intelligent but it is not a democracy.
Indeed the various peoples of South Asia are not stupid, I would say that I even agree with some of their mainstream conclusions about the intellectual history of the West, that the philosophers of antiquity in the West were in fact misguided and incoherent in a spiritual way, that Aristotle and others took their systematic and mathematical proofs for fact, when, however useful those models are, their conclusions are inevitably derived from their own presupposed rules. Whereas, any spiritual being immediately knows by the nature of perception that there is something in the real world beyond the scope of mechanistic logic.
The Iranians understand that their national peace cannot be achieved by foreign military intervention, and the rest of the world understands that as well. Most of the world is pretty sick of hearing about the violence. Like the Iranian people, we want to be free to explore all that God has given us, out in the world, but most importantly in own minds, and deep in our souls.
The violent anger that Ahmadinejad, Khomeni and his ilk drum up is the only thing they know how to do. In this way, the controlling forces of Iran's government are much stupider than the Iranian people, who know how to direct their lives.
The fascist brigands who use Islam as their excuse of the day to wield the knife of murder also stoke the anger of Muslims in Europe and the rest of the world. Just as the Iranian people should be free to live their lives openly and in honest freedom, without the lies that drip with blood, Muslims around the world must learn to control their own anger. Just as the Iranians should be free to openly participate in and control their own governments, so people ought to be free to draw cartoons of the prophets and even the messiah. It is said that God will only hold blasphemy against the spirit against us... and you can't draw a cartoon of something you cannot see. Besides, good humor is necessary to a heart open to God... God likes to laugh.
Similarly, I ought to be free to hold the opinion, which I do personally, that Muhammad is the False Prophet mentioned in Revelation, just as the sinfulness expressed in the partially free western world is the opposite character, Babylon, Mystery, and as polar opposites of cultural force, their interaction is used by the Beast and the Dragon to levy death upon the good people who live with God everywhere among us and in every religion -- but even though I hold this opinion personally, I certainly have no reason to hurt anyone because they do not believe the same way I do. (I also have no reason to hurtfully make fun of what other people believe by drawing immature cartoons.) That's the thing -- no one knows the details of God's plan, not us, not even the angels. When you turn to the light of the Lord, it is so interesting to the mind in and of itself, that what other people believe ceases to have any importance.
God does not want us to hate each other or to be angry about what we cannot control. The sword of death cannot control people even in death; when wielded by governments, inevitably the government slips and cuts its own throat. Thus good people courageously step forward without weapons, with only love to guard them. That is the story of the world, that is the way it always plays out. So, we might as well live the good dream while we are still dreaming in God's mind. I hope all the people of Iran choose the good dream. We may never reach perfection in our lives, but it is easier than you think to let it live in your heart.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
4:48 PM
If Tamil child soldiers do need rehabilitation, the last people who should give it to them are the soldiers who just crushed the rebellion. Handing over these children to soldiers who just waged a vicious war to suppress a violent revolt is, on its face, giving them as prizes of war to be brutalized.
This is one of those things that is so shocking that we don't want to think about it. Well, it is way over there, and besides, what can we do? Well, what can we do? All the arm waving in the world may not help. But what is the alternative? Drop bombs on Columbo and widen the conflict? That certainly would not go well with India.
Well, saying something is a start. Visit The Government of Sri Lanka and find a way to communicate, call your local representative and senator, or donate or volunteer to an aid organization. But will that really help? Pray? What fixes this? What saves those kids?
I am at a loss, and sad for them, but I honestly don't know what to do about it. There's nothing positive to do, in the end, but pray that people in the Sri Lankan government and military will do the right thing. Maybe that's not likely. Maybe that's not the way the world is "supposed" to happen. But it's possible.
sri lanka's tamil children
Following the brutal termination of Sri Lanka's civil war, many children of 200,000+ Tamil refugees have been taken from the concentration camps by the military and/or paramilitary groups to secret "re-education" camps without access by anyone - their parents, the Red Cross, or the U.N.If Tamil child soldiers do need rehabilitation, the last people who should give it to them are the soldiers who just crushed the rebellion. Handing over these children to soldiers who just waged a vicious war to suppress a violent revolt is, on its face, giving them as prizes of war to be brutalized.
This is one of those things that is so shocking that we don't want to think about it. Well, it is way over there, and besides, what can we do? Well, what can we do? All the arm waving in the world may not help. But what is the alternative? Drop bombs on Columbo and widen the conflict? That certainly would not go well with India.
Well, saying something is a start. Visit The Government of Sri Lanka and find a way to communicate, call your local representative and senator, or donate or volunteer to an aid organization. But will that really help? Pray? What fixes this? What saves those kids?
I am at a loss, and sad for them, but I honestly don't know what to do about it. There's nothing positive to do, in the end, but pray that people in the Sri Lankan government and military will do the right thing. Maybe that's not likely. Maybe that's not the way the world is "supposed" to happen. But it's possible.
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
10:28 PM
This person says that America's founding fathers would have supported spy cameras in churches and other places of worship to monitor who adheres to what religion.
"...it is debatable whether or not the Founding Fathers wanted America to follow their Masonic beliefs." It is? This person does not understand. The founding fathers set up a system that would be stable while allowing the emergence of new beliefs.
What a joke. What a jerk. We're on to you, China. We're not stupid.
Fascist jerks!
insane chinese propaganda
Check this one out... this site is based in Hong Kong from a parent company with no web site - only a 'sysop@cenal.com' contact address.This person says that America's founding fathers would have supported spy cameras in churches and other places of worship to monitor who adheres to what religion.
"...it is debatable whether or not the Founding Fathers wanted America to follow their Masonic beliefs." It is? This person does not understand. The founding fathers set up a system that would be stable while allowing the emergence of new beliefs.
What a joke. What a jerk. We're on to you, China. We're not stupid.
Fascist jerks!
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
9:42 AM
Take a step back for a second, and consider who benefits from keeping Pakistan busy with pressure from India, and India busy with fear of Pakistan?
Pakistan borders Afghanistan on the north. Military analysts say that Pakistan can't wait to fill the power vacuum when the Americans decide Afghanistan is not worth the cost anymore. (Or when we simply run out of money.)
Who has had the interest in controlling Afghanistan since before 9/11? Saudi Arabia and China. Afghanistan's Kyber Pass is the crucial link of the future pipeline to transport oil from the world's largest reserve to the world's largest energy consumer.
Like the Taliban, if the formal government of Pakistan has aspirations for influence in Afghanistan, they would need to be given something else to keep them busy.
So they find some poor Pakistani nut-cases coming off heroin, brainwash them with tales of thirty virgins and give them training and guns, and send them to Mumbai.
Similarly, with India occupied by war with Pakistan, China would be free to expand its southern borders into the Himalayas as the chaos unfolds.
who benefits by keeping pakistan busy?
The recent hostage shooting attacks in Mumbai, India put the governments of India and Pakistan at odds with each other, distrusting each other, and fully focused on each other as the most immediate threat to their national security.Take a step back for a second, and consider who benefits from keeping Pakistan busy with pressure from India, and India busy with fear of Pakistan?
Pakistan borders Afghanistan on the north. Military analysts say that Pakistan can't wait to fill the power vacuum when the Americans decide Afghanistan is not worth the cost anymore. (Or when we simply run out of money.)
Who has had the interest in controlling Afghanistan since before 9/11? Saudi Arabia and China. Afghanistan's Kyber Pass is the crucial link of the future pipeline to transport oil from the world's largest reserve to the world's largest energy consumer.
Like the Taliban, if the formal government of Pakistan has aspirations for influence in Afghanistan, they would need to be given something else to keep them busy.
So they find some poor Pakistani nut-cases coming off heroin, brainwash them with tales of thirty virgins and give them training and guns, and send them to Mumbai.
Similarly, with India occupied by war with Pakistan, China would be free to expand its southern borders into the Himalayas as the chaos unfolds.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
11:28 PM
The geopolitical theory used to justify this may be, that if we enable India to deter against a nuclear attack by Pakistan, Iran or China, that the United States would be able to stand out of a nuclear conflict and would not be obliged to retaliate on behalf of our ally, which of course would trigger a nuclear strike against us.
This idiotic arms race among the developing nations of the world must end, because climate models suggest that even a limited nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would cause global weather effects, decreasing sunlight by 60% or more for several years. This would cause mass crop failure, poverty and starvation in the United States and everywhere else.
India is the nation of Gandhi who found a peaceful end to his country's occupation by the British. His legacy inspired nations and his tenure in South Africa in part inspired that country to voluntarily give up nuclear weapons after the end of apartheid. India and the United States are not slaves to industrial occupiers.
We must throw off the bondage of these death-wielding oppressors and live free, arm in arm with Pakistan and China and everyone else without nuclear weapons. The longer we possess them, the more likely a nuclear war will occur. Even if limited to two nations, it will cost the rest of the world far more than what the nuclear energy companies might gain by selling this fuel.
Please, call your congressional representative and senators today and beg that they cancel this deal to spur the nuclear arms race in India and South Asia.
risking world future for a little money now
Time and time again, minority industrial interests risk the future of all of humanity with short-sighted grasps at profit. Money is not the driving force of history and humanity! The deal to sell nuclear fuel to India will allow them to create many new nuclear warheads. We've wired the world with a short fuse to explode and now we need more? These are not firecrackers. A single bomb destroys a city.The geopolitical theory used to justify this may be, that if we enable India to deter against a nuclear attack by Pakistan, Iran or China, that the United States would be able to stand out of a nuclear conflict and would not be obliged to retaliate on behalf of our ally, which of course would trigger a nuclear strike against us.
This idiotic arms race among the developing nations of the world must end, because climate models suggest that even a limited nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would cause global weather effects, decreasing sunlight by 60% or more for several years. This would cause mass crop failure, poverty and starvation in the United States and everywhere else.
India is the nation of Gandhi who found a peaceful end to his country's occupation by the British. His legacy inspired nations and his tenure in South Africa in part inspired that country to voluntarily give up nuclear weapons after the end of apartheid. India and the United States are not slaves to industrial occupiers.
We must throw off the bondage of these death-wielding oppressors and live free, arm in arm with Pakistan and China and everyone else without nuclear weapons. The longer we possess them, the more likely a nuclear war will occur. Even if limited to two nations, it will cost the rest of the world far more than what the nuclear energy companies might gain by selling this fuel.
Please, call your congressional representative and senators today and beg that they cancel this deal to spur the nuclear arms race in India and South Asia.
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Friday, August 8, 2008
11:46 AM
The only way to stop violence, in any war, is for one or more sides to stop fighting. This can be done easily, given a voluntary choice by commanders on both opposing sides. Why not? This is the "win-win" box of game theory that everyone seems to ignore. What is it that can turn generals into diplomats, and soldiers into people again? There can be no war to achieve peace, because war creates institutions that see it as their own end. The path to peace is for each and every individual to awaken love within themselves, and to see all human beings as they really are, trapped in a prison for the imagination. It is this all-encompassing metaphysical prison that drives us to hurt one another! A co-operative mutual choice does not put either "side" at any disadvantage. Mutual co-operation is usually, though not always, the only good choice for each individual, because it is the only choice that does not endanger the existence of the game.
The survival of our animal ancestors depended on our ability to kill. The survival of the human race now depends on the individual choice of every human being to live with mistakes and pain. Together, Russian and Georgian citizens can see each other as different, divided, individual outside of the scope of their government, and free to love one another, but that depends on choice. The future is undetermined and the chains of the past can be cast off with the simplest of choices - to listen. Does it matter who started the conflict? Does it matter that an oil pipeline is part of the rationalization for war? How does war make anything better?
What if the "prisoner's dilemma" were this: Box 1, A and B kill each other; Box 2, A kills B then A dies and is replaced by a demon who destroys the world; Box 3, B kills A then B dies and is replaced by a demon who destroys the world; Box 4, A and B learn to live with each other, and they throw a wine festival on the border lands with rock and folk music.
Russia's re-invasion of Georgia
I just don't get it. Why the pretenses leading up to war? It is a chamber-pot, a crock, a barrel of poo. Vain mutterings of an infant Russia reborn into the voices of her citizens. Not that America, still in her adolescence, is not a little angry about it. But these gropings in the dark, as the last gasps of life expel from the victims, common people thrown about by gyrations of culture and opinion, they will grope toward the killers, feeling their way into their minds until a vacant, blank, numb hole persists within their minds, and nothing else. Overthrow death! The Lord spoke, and told us that one day Death itself will be obsolete. So why not now? Turn within and think about your role in the world. What actions do you take that lead to death? We must turn away from death - help one another - love one another - these are not complicated equations. They do not need a computer to target their kill zones. They do not need the power of authority in a hierarchy, because the "secret network" of people within whom love still burns far outnumber the few who would willingly use violence.The only way to stop violence, in any war, is for one or more sides to stop fighting. This can be done easily, given a voluntary choice by commanders on both opposing sides. Why not? This is the "win-win" box of game theory that everyone seems to ignore. What is it that can turn generals into diplomats, and soldiers into people again? There can be no war to achieve peace, because war creates institutions that see it as their own end. The path to peace is for each and every individual to awaken love within themselves, and to see all human beings as they really are, trapped in a prison for the imagination. It is this all-encompassing metaphysical prison that drives us to hurt one another! A co-operative mutual choice does not put either "side" at any disadvantage. Mutual co-operation is usually, though not always, the only good choice for each individual, because it is the only choice that does not endanger the existence of the game.
The survival of our animal ancestors depended on our ability to kill. The survival of the human race now depends on the individual choice of every human being to live with mistakes and pain. Together, Russian and Georgian citizens can see each other as different, divided, individual outside of the scope of their government, and free to love one another, but that depends on choice. The future is undetermined and the chains of the past can be cast off with the simplest of choices - to listen. Does it matter who started the conflict? Does it matter that an oil pipeline is part of the rationalization for war? How does war make anything better?
What if the "prisoner's dilemma" were this: Box 1, A and B kill each other; Box 2, A kills B then A dies and is replaced by a demon who destroys the world; Box 3, B kills A then B dies and is replaced by a demon who destroys the world; Box 4, A and B learn to live with each other, and they throw a wine festival on the border lands with rock and folk music.
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